[Bug 427356] Re: Boot Performance Updates

[jasmineaura]

Well, everyone keeps saying usplash was disabled, I figured I must be
missing something obvious. But it didn't seem as though, because I was
mislead...

On September 2nd, 2008, Scott Remnant wrote, on:
http://www.netsplit.com/2009/09/02/making-a-splash/

>You could also argue that we could load the KMS drivers earlier, in the
initramfs for example. While possible, this adds a significant time to
the boot time for the extra loading and probing required. If we load the
KMS driver in the initramfs, it takes about 8-10s to load the X server;
if we load the KMS driver in the full system, it only takes about 6-8s
to load the X server. Easy win.

>But what if we have to check the filesystem, or enter a decryption
passphrase to mount it? That’s why we still have usplash. In those cases
we will start usplash to display the progress or request the key. The
usplash theme will be themed such that when it finishes, and X starts
up, it looks ok frozen for the short time until xsplash replaces it with
an identical theme.

So I was under the impression that usplash was here to stay, with the
addition of xsplash..

However, on a minimal / "command-line" installed system, xsplash may be
too much for the system to handle, in terms of resources, and in terms
of graphical support, if a minimal X environment was later installed.
For instance, on my test-bed system, a neomagic 256ZX with 4mb video ram
is not capable of supporting 24-bit color depth, as its max supported
resolution is 1024x768 @ 16-bit depth.

Are there any plans to account for that in other ubuntu branches, like
say, Lubuntu?

To make matters worse, the new "feature" added by the stream of fixes
described in bug #427356 "Boot performance updates" - i.e the newly
added option "USPLASH=y" to initramsfs-tools - was nowhere to be
mentioned.. Not in the default /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf file,
nor in `man initramfs.conf`, nor in any of the usplash package files :(

I guess we need this new option documented in `man initramfs.conf` or to
at least include "USPLASH=n" in the default initramfs.conf ?

Thanks

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